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The Government Printing Office website contains official information from all three branches of the federal government. Congressional bills and record, public/private laws, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulation, the Federal Register, and more can all be found here.

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress and is published daily when Congress is in session. GPO Access contains Congressional Record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present.

Not only can you access, for free, complete local and national census results, which can be helpful factually in a multitude of ways, (e.g., in discrimination cases) but this Web site is a key resource for analyzing jury-pool demographics. With it you can find out all age, race, income, education, and other information about any county in the country.

PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) is an electronic database run by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. There are currently PACER systems available in the U.S. Supreme Court, all of the Federal District Courts, as well as the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts. PACER is administered centrally; however, each court operates its own system locally so data is not integrated across jurisdictions. PACER is best if you know in which court the case was filed along with the case number, party name, or filing date. PACER charges a small per-page fee.

There are other similar but more expensive resources, including Courtlink, CourtExpress, and Westlaw, which allow searches across multiple jurisdictions on any section or combination of sections from the docket. Possible search criteria include, names of parties, judges, attorneys and law firms, case subjects, date ranges, and text of clerk’s docket entry items. Courtlink also offers information from certain state courts, including Delaware Court of Chancery dockets, Cook County, Illinois, and New York State Supreme Court. CourtExpress covers International Trade Commission petitions and complaints, and WestDockets allows for a traditional terms and connectors search for a few dollars.

RECAP is a free add-on to the excellent Firefox web browser that gives PACER users an easy way to contribute to a free, open repository of federal court records. When a RECAP user purchases a document from PACER, the RECAP extension automatically sends a copy of that document to the RECAP archive. The best part is that RECAP saves users money by notifying them when documents they’re searching for are already available for free from the public archive.

This site provides links to all state, county, and city government sites and can be helpful when information is needed from a different jurisdiction. The resource can be used, for example, to find a county website in another state from which you may be able to locate case-docketing information.

Often it is a state's Department of State that has key information about corporations, liens, licensing, administrative law, and election information. For example, it can sometimes be helpful to determine corporate status and the officers and directors of a corporation by searching the Department of State’s website in the state of incorporation. This site includes information for all states' departments of state, but is not as useful before it took down the map-link reference to each state's SOS. Links to individual state secretaries are in state sections below.

This is where to find annual reports and other public filings of Florida corporations. Useful to determine whether corporations are in good status (and, therefore, are able to sue or be sued), as well as to find information about officers and directors.

Since 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has been the designated organization in the private sector for establishing standards of financial accounting. Those standards govern the preparation of financial statements and are officially recognized as authoritative by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A voluntary organization of persons interested in accounting education and research. Formed in 1916, the AAA is the principal association of accounting academics in the US. Its main publication is The Accounting Review, first published in 1926.

The PCAOB is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and futher the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports.

The increase in trade through the ports of Florida, including Miami and Port Everglades, and the increasingly important role of Miami as the financial and cultural capital of Latin America, inspired creation of the Miami Maritime Arbitration Council ("MMAC"). The goal of the Council is to assist in obtaining fair, confidential and inexpensive resolutions to maritime disputes, both domestic and international.

The American Arbitration Association provides services to individuals and organizations who wish to resolve conflicts out of court. Its role in the dispute-resolution process is to provide administrative services for cases including assisting in the appointment of arbitrators, setting hearings, and providing users with information on dispute resolution options.

The Association for International Arbitration (AIA) works towards promotion of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in general and arbitration in particular, as a means of dispute resolution and strives to bring together the global community in this field, be it as professionals in the form of judges, lawyers, arbitrators, mediators or as academics as well research scholars and students. The association is not an arbitration institute and does not make arbitral appointments.

The "CIArb" is a not-for-profit, UK registered charity working in the public interest through an international network of branches and has a global membership of around 12,000 individuals who have professional training in private dispute resolution. It exists for the global promotion, facilitation and development of all forms of private dispute resolution to maximize the contribution that dispute resolution practitioners make. CIArb acts as an international center for practitioners, policy makers, academics and those in business concerned with the cost-effective and early settlement of disputes.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority operates the largest dispute resolution forum in the securities industry to assist in the resolution of monetary and business disputes between and among investors, securities firms and individual registered representatives.

The International Chamber of Commerce runs the ICC International Court of Arbitration, one of the world's leading institutions for resolving international commercial and business disputes. The court has handled more than16,000 cases since founded in 1923. In 2008, 663 cases were filed, involving 1,758 parties from 120 countries. ICC arbitration is an attractive alternative to national courts for resolving international business disputes because cases are confidential and can be resolved in neutral countries by international arbitrators.

The American Arbitration Association (AAA) established the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR). The "Centre" is charged with the administration of all of the AAA's international matters. Additionally, the ICDR has cooperative agreements with arbitral institutions around the world for facilitating the administration of its international cases. ICDR arbitration is under its specific rules, which allow parties to choose where a dispute will be arbitrated and an ability to select an arbitrator or mediator with appropriate language skills.

JAMS (originally standing for Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services) was founded in California in 1979. JAMS is now the largest private alternative dispute resolution provider in the world. JAMS specializes in mediating and arbitrating complex, multi-party, business/commercial cases and prides itself on its panel more than 250 full-time arbitral neutrals.

Orginally founded in 1892, the LCIA is one of the oldest international institutions for commercial dispute resolution. Based in London, the LCIA provides international administration of dispute resolution proceedings for parties, regardless of their location or native system of law.

The increase in trade through the ports of Florida, including Miami and Port Everglades, and the increasingly important role of Miami as the financial and cultural capital of Latin America, inspired creation of the Miami Maritime Arbitration Council ("MMAC"). The goal of the Council is to assist in obtaining fair, confidential and inexpensive resolutions to maritime disputes, both domestic and international.

Located in The Hague and established by treaty in 1899, the PCA is an intergovernmental organization with over 100 member states that provides a variety of dispute-resolution services to the international community. The PCA administers arbitration, conciliation and fact finding in disputes involving various combinations of states, private parties, state entities, and intergovernmental organizations. International commercial arbitration can also be conducted under PCA auspices. The PCA’s two working languages are English and French. However, proceedings may be conducted in any language agreed on by the parties. The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, adopted in 1976, contemplate that parties should specify an appointing authority in their arbitration agreement who will appoint arbitrators and decide challenges when necessary. Otherwise the rules entrust the Secretary-General of the PCA with the role of designating an "appointing authority" upon request of a party to arbitration proceedings.

Serving over 1.2 million professionals in 185 countries, Aviation Week is the largest information and services provider to the global commercial, defense, maintenance/repair/overhaul (MRO), space and business aviation communities and connects industry professionals worldwide.

The CCLP is affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Law and undertakes and supports academic research on issues related to communications law and regulation, and technology policy.

This site is s designed to provide the latest in legal and commercial information from the world’s top law firms and industry insiders. Every year the top 100 American law firms produce more than 10,000 Client Alerts addressing the key commercial and legal issues faced by their clients. This site aggregates, reviews, sorts and summarizes this content---for free--resulting in an excellent resource.

At the Securities & Exchange Commission site, search the on-line EDGAR database of corporate filings of publicly held companies. Search for a person over the entire database, or find quarterly and annual reports, and other disclosures using a company's name or trading symbol. Click on "Search for Company Filings."

Site aims to make the deal-making process more efficient, intuitive and transparent. Lawyers begin by identifying the documents the transaction will require, and the parties who will have to sign each document. The system then tracks the back-and-forth of negotiating and revising the wording of each document, maintaining a full record of versions and dates. Once the documents are done, the system prepares the necessary signature pages and delivers them to the appropriate parties. Signatures are held in escrow until all are in and the deal closed. Progress is shown graphically in a matrix depicting documents and signatories. Users can see the progression of drafts signature status in real time. While in beta, there is no charge to use it. Its developers, who are lawyers, have not decided on post-beta pricing, but say it will be based on a flexible, pay-as-you-go subscription.

The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model)develops guidelines and standards for e-discovery consumers and providers. Its graphic model of the flow of electronic discovery is one of the most widely used graphics in e-discovery seminars and training materials. But clicking on the graphic at the Website provides a wealth of information on every aspect of information management, identification, preservation, collection, processing, review, analysis, production and presentation.

The Legal Electronic Document Institute is a Washington non-profit corporation (seemingly run from New Orleans) established to promote the development of education and standards in the field of legal electronic documents, including practice management of electronic documents, electronic trial practice with litigation support systems, e-filing, e-signatures and e-discovery.

A blog dedicated to cases, insights, developments and best practices relating to the development and implementation of legal holds relating to audit, investigation and litigation in the United States; and trigger events that give rise to the duty to preserve evidence in the United States.

The Sedona Conference is an institute that provides educational programs and working groups. Since cited by Judge Schindlin in the watershed Zubulake opinions, Sedona's "Principles" and "Guidelines" have become well known and are persuasive in the resolution of e-discovery disputes.

Download the full text of the amended order and opionion Pension Committee v. Banc of America Secs., Judge Scheindlin's latest contribution to the e-discovery dialogue, discussing appropriate sanctions for various degrees of failure in the preservation and collection of electronically stored information.

The Commission Nationale de L'informatique et des Libertés is the independent French administrative data-protection authority. Official site includes commentary on implementation and interpretation of the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC.

An anonymous forum for patent professionals to review, rank and learn about patent examiners and trademark examining attorneys. "Prior knowledge about a particular patent examiner or a trademark examining attorney can be a valuable tool when planning and strategizing the prosecution of a patent or trademark case."

The purpose of this blog is to provide articles on labor and employment issues that involve federal labor and employment laws, and to be a resource for employers, human resource professionals, and labor relation's officers.

The NLRB is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and employers in the private sector.

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration's mission is to prevent work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths. Congress created OSHA under the Occupational Safety and Health Act, signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 29, 1970.

On-line Cliff-type notes with a decent legal writing section that includes basic concepts for drafting the case note, the legal memorandum, the appellate brief, as well as general tips on legal writing.

The Seventh Circuit seems to have taken the lead on trying to educate lawyers as to what formatting looks best, reads best, and is most persuasive. Two documents, Requirements and Suggestions for Typography in Briefs and Other Papers, as well as the article by Ruth Anne Robbins, Painting with Print: Incorporating Concepts of Typographic and Layout Design Into the Text of Legal Writing Documents, are both posted on the Circuit’s website under “Guides.”

The principal U.S. agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. Site includes pages on diseases, prevention, preparedness, and regulations.

At the Securities & Exchange Commission site, search the on-line EDGAR database of corporate filings of publicly held companies. Search for a person over the entire database, or find quarterly and annual reports, and other disclosures using a company's name or trading symbol. Click on "Search for Company Filings."

The PCAOB is a private-sector, nonprofit corporation created by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 to oversee the auditors of public companies in order to protect the interests of investors and futher the public interest in the preparation of informative, fair, and independent audit reports.

One of the most amazing resources on the web, Archive.org archives images of Websites periodically, and if you know the name of a site—even a now-defunct site—a search of the Wayback Machine will likely turn up the site’s content at many different times in history. Great resource for issues of copyright, defamation, business torts, or just finding a bio from an old employer's Website.

This was the first law-related site on the World Wide Web. Founded in 1993, before most lawyers had Internet access. This is a first-tier site for free legal research. Start new topics in the "Law About" section.

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read opinions for US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, U.S. federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and U.S. Supreme Court cases since 1791. In addition, it includes citations for cases cited by indexed opinions or journal articles which allows you to find influential cases (usually older or international) which are not yet online or publicly available. Google does not warrant that the information is complete or accurate.

A free add-on to the Firefox web browser that gives PACER users a way to contribute to, and take from a free, open repository of federal court records. When a RECAP user purchases a document from PACER, the RECAP extension automatically sends a copy of that document to the RECAP archive. Then RECAP saves users money by notifying them when documents they’re searching for are already available for free from the public archive.

Sells access to public records from around the country. PC World calls it "one of the oldest and most reliable of these companies." Find marriage records, death records, businss permits, property records for a $5 monthly fee, or use the "premium" service for bankruptcy and criminal records.

The "deep Web," sometimes called the "invisible Web" covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the World Wide Web in various files and formats that the current search engines on the Internet either cannot find or have difficulty accessing. This site is designed to provide a wide range of resources to better understand the history of deep web research. Includes various classified resources that allow you to search through the currently available web to find key sources of information located via an understanding of how to search the “deep web."

This site is s designed to provide the latest in legal and commercial information from the world’s top law firms and industry insiders. Every year the top 100 American law firms produce more than 10,000 Client Alerts addressing the key commercial and legal issues faced by their clients. This site aggregates, reviews, sorts and summarizes this content--for free--resulting in an excellent resource.

This tremendous resource is a one-stop-shop for practically every Web user. It is often used by journalists for fact checking and should definitely be considered for inclusion in everyone’s “Favorites” menu.

Google is the go-to search engine for most people. Indeed, its search algorithm based on the number of links to sites is very sophisticated. Most people don’t know, however, that Google is also a calculator. Type in, “5+50=” for example, and Google recognizes you are asking it a math problem. Use the asterisk (*) for multiplication and the slash (/) to divide. Google can also do square roots, logarithmic functions, exponentiation, factorials, and more. You can enter “how many feet in a meter?” or find “how many inches in a mile?”

You can also type in the name of a person or business and city and state or zip code, and Google will give you an address and phone number. Type in an area code and number, and it acts as a reverse phonebook, giving the name and address of the person or entity associated with the number and even a map. Type “define: holiday” for the answer (good, as in this case, when seeking a common word’s meaning as a term of art). Type in the tracking number of a FedEx, UPS, or U.S. Postal Service delivery, and it will link you to the page about your package. Don’t forget to include quotation marks to eliminate pages that just contain one of the words or another, and include small words like “a,” “and,” and “the.” Use a minus or plus sign to weed out irrelevant pages. Use wildcards (*) or (?) for unknown words. Also, try asking the question in the form of an answer, i.e. “Zubulake is*.”

Currently, Google Scholar allows you to search and read opinions for US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, U.S. federal district, appellate, tax and bankruptcy courts since 1923 and U.S. Supreme Court cases since 1791. In addition, it includes citations for cases cited by indexed opinions or journal articles which allows you to find influential cases (usually older or international) which are not yet online or publicly available. Google does not warrant that the information is complete or accurate.

AT&T’s online directory has a reverse directory and international section. With reverse directories attorneys can look up numbers of subpoenaed phone records to determine who a witness has been calling. No cell-phone numbers however.

Sells access to public records from around the country. PC World calls it "one of the oldest and most reliable of these companies." Find marriage records, death records, businss permits, property records for a $5 monthly fee, or use the "premium" service for bankruptcy and criminal records.

Download FTI's free TrialMax program which, like Trial Director and Sanction II, is a trial presentation program that allows lawyers to bring up and highlight all forms of digital evidence before the finder of fact.

A blog dedicated to cases, insights, developments and best practices relating to the development and implementation of legal holds relating to audit, investigation and litigation in the United States; and trigger events that give rise to the duty to preserve evidence in the United States.

The purpose of this blog is to provide articles on labor and employment issues that involve federal labor and employment laws, and to be a resource for employers, human resource professionals, and labor relation's officers.

Real-time tracking of U.S. national debt, financial meltdown, cost of war, social security, medicare/medicade, interest on debt, U.S. credit-card debt, population, unemployment, and private debt per citizen. Best to be informed.

Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site's cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular website for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of June 2009, it claims to host more than 3.6 billion images.

Friendster is a privately owned social networking website headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The service allows users to contact other members, and share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via their profile. Friendster has over 90-million registered users and over 61-million unique visitors a month globally. The website receives approximately 19-billion page views per month, and is in the top-100 global website based on web traffic. Over 90% of Friendster's traffic comes from Asia, where Friendster has more monthly unique visitors than any other social network.

MySpace is a Social network service headquartered in Beverly Hills, California and owned indirectly by News Corporation. MySpace became the most popular social networking site in the United States in June 2006. According to ComScore, MySpace was overtaken internationally by main competitor Facebook in April 2008, based on monthly unique visitors.

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles. Web pages are presented when the user clicks the "Stumble!" button on the browser's toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user's ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service(SMS) or external applications. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet" since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter. Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa Internet. A February 2009 Compete.com ranked Twitter as the third most used social network based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.

YouTube is a video sharing Website headquartered in Calirornia and now owned by Google. The company uses Adobe Flash Video technology to displade a wide variety of searchable user-generated video content.

Zimbio is an online magazine publisher that allows users to build interactive "wikizines", or web magazines, on whatever topic they choose. The site commonly covers headlines in entertainment, style, current events, and more. Zimbio is one of the fastest growing community sites on the internet.